Midvash

יְהוֹחָנָןYᵉhôwchânân

proper name, masculine: hath been gracious

Pronunciation: yeh-ho-khaw-nawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3076

Meanings

1.

a. a priest (Nehemiah 12:13)

b. high priest (Ezra 10:6; Nehemiah 12:22; Nehemiah 12:23)

2. Levite (Nehemiah 12:42)

3. son of Tobiah (Nehemiah 6:18)

4. porter in David's time (1 Chronicles 26:3)

5. a Judaite captain (2 Chronicles 17:15; 2 Chronicles 23:1)

6. an Ephraimite (2 Chronicles 28:12)

7. an Israelite, Ezra's time (Ezra 10:28)

8. a Jewish captain, after fall of Jerusalem (2 Kings 25:23; Jeremiah 40:8; Jeremiah 40:13)

9. eldest son of king Josiah (1 Chronicles 3:15; 2 Kings 23:30)

10. a post-exilic prince of the line of David (1 Chronicles 3:24)

11. father of Azariah, priest in Solomon's time (1 Chronicles 5:35; 1 Chronicles 5:36)

12. two of David's mighty men

a. a Benjamite (1 Chronicles 12:5)

b. a Gadite (1 Chronicles 12:13)

13. a returning exile (Ezra 8:12)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 11 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Chronicles 12:4 Ishmaiah from Gibeon, a famous warrior and leader among the Thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, and Jozabad from Gederah;
  • 1 Chronicles 12:12 Johanan was eighth. Elzabad was ninth.
  • 1 Chronicles 26:3 Elam (the fifth), Jehohanan (the sixth), and Eliehoenai (the seventh).
  • 2 Chronicles 17:15 Next in command was Jehohanan, who commanded 280,000 troops.
  • 2 Chronicles 23:1 In the seventh year of Athaliah’s reign, Jehoiada the priest decided to act. He summoned his courage and made a pact with five army commanders: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zicri.
  • 2 Chronicles 28:12 Then some of the leaders of Israel—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berekiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—agreed with this and confronted the men returning from battle.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).